A blog to discuss my experience of being in reunion with my birthfamily for the last twenty-five years. It's about identity and the integration of my life with my birthmother's and the unique blended family that forms as a result.

My name is Petra. It is the name my birthmother gave me.My first mother. That name is gone now. Hidden in who I was. I never got to be that person.Petra is the feminine of Peter, which happened to be my adoptive father's name. My adoptive parents named me Cathleen. They didn't know it was my birthmother's name.

It's like is was designed by fate. But what it feels like is two separate lives, one lived out, the other unknown.